The history of political and social concepts : a critical introduction

The history of political and social concepts : a critical introduction / Melvin Richter.

This text outlines and illustrates a new approach to intellectual history, the history of "concepts". In contrast with to the study of more traditional units of analysis, conceptual history stresses historical contexts, seeking to combine the history of ideas and language with social histo...

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Main Author: Richter, Melvin, 1921-2020
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Political science > History.
Sociology > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Political science.
Sociology.
Ciencia politica.
Sociologia (historia)
History of ideas.
History: theory & methods.
Political science & theory.
Social & cultural history.
Social theory.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. Charting the History of Political and Social Concepts; 2. The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Relating Political and Social Concepts to Structural Change; 3. The History of the Concept of Herrschaft in the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe; 4. The Place of Concepts in the History of Mentalités: The Handbuch of French Political and Social Concepts; 5. Innovation and Critique in the Handbuch; 6. Pocock, Skinner, and Begriffsgeschichte; 7. "By the Sufferance of Wise Men": A Call for a History of Political and Social Concepts in English.

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